# Elasticsearch service is not starting

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-service-is-not-starting/375435>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [March 5, 2025, 8:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-service-is-not-starting/375435 "2025-03-05T08:26:45Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Temor\_Shah\_Waris](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/temor_shah_waris/32/139094_2.png) [@Temor\_Shah\_Waris](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Temor_Shah_Waris)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2025, 8:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-service-is-not-starting/375435/1 "2025-03-05T08:26:45Z")

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Dear Friends,  
I configured SSL certificate on elasticsearch yml file after restart the service it is not running ( I do checked the yml file, SSL certificate CA, Key and CRT file ) also I checked the permissions which are correct and java which I have 16 Gb memory, 4 CPU and java assigned memory is 8 G. Also the log file is not updating.

Note: I am using ubuntu 22.04 ver  
Hope you can give me solutions  
Thanks

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**Author:** ![pix9](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/pix9/32/128388_2.png) [@pix9](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pix9)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2025, 8:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-service-is-not-starting/375435/2 "2025-03-05T08:34:27Z")

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What does the logs say ?

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**Author:** ![Temor\_Shah\_Waris](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/temor_shah_waris/32/139094_2.png) [@Temor\_Shah\_Waris](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Temor_Shah_Waris)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2025, 8:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-service-is-not-starting/375435/3 "2025-03-05T08:36:26Z")

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it has old logs for few commands and after that when I bring any change in yml file and restart the service the error is not updating in log file

I installed ubuntu 22.04  
java ver 23  
elasticsearch ver 8.17.3

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**Author:** ![pix9](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/pix9/32/128388_2.png) [@pix9](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pix9)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2025, 9:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-service-is-not-starting/375435/4 "2025-03-05T09:14:46Z")

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Wild guess that's likely an issue with your yml syntax.  
you can try syntax checks on the changed files.

You may also want to check if there are any other logs on system because without logs we can't help much.

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**Author:** ![Temor\_Shah\_Waris](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/temor_shah_waris/32/139094_2.png) [@Temor\_Shah\_Waris](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Temor_Shah_Waris)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2025, 9:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-service-is-not-starting/375435/5 "2025-03-05T09:27:09Z")

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Thank you sir, however I check yml file every letter it is correct this happened while i configured SSL certificate. It is cluster node 1